Chrome Web Store launched eight years, the number of extensions available for installation has reached 188,620 a current installed base of over one billion. The above data comes from the app store for Chrome Extension Monitor recently released analysis report .
These numbers sound very large, but the Extension Monitor found that the rate of all installed extensions showing two extremes.
On the one hand, there are 13 extensions installed capacity exceeded 10 million mark, namely: Google Translate, Adobe Acrobat, Tampermonkey, Avast Online Security, Adblock Plus, Adblock, uBlock Origin, Pinterest Save Button, Cisco Webex, Grammarly for Chrome, Skype, Avast SafePrice and Honey.
There are also high popularity of extensions is also close to 10 million threshold. As can be seen, the most popular category is ad blocker, communications, coupons / shopping, security, password manager and so on.
However, in general, users of the Chrome extension is still relatively limited, especially when compared with Google's other ecosystems (such as Android applications), obviously there is not a small gap.
So there is the other extreme: wherein extended 19,379 (more than 10% of all extensions) 0 installation , expansion 25,540 (13% of total) only one user, a 50% extension is mounted fewer than 16 times, about 87% expand the number of installation is less than 1,000.
In addition, Chrome Web Store supports two types of payment extensions, namely in-app purchases and in-store purchases. Extend paid a total of 16,718, accounting for 8.9% of the total, the installation rate of less than 2.6%, and in which there are 5,885 (about 35%) do not have any users.
Considering the Chrome browser, the large number of monthly active users, there is a huge market potential, such data is inevitable that the developers felt like a failure.
Two days ago, a developer due to the expansion of a reward function is not perfect and issued a protest to Google and Mozilla and other companies; Extension Monitor also said the extension is not a small security challenges (which will be explored in subsequent extensions to the analysis report ). This extension reflects the current bottleneck in the development of ecosystems, then exactly how to break through?
Original analysis report: https://extensionmonitor.com/blog/breaking-down-the-chrome-web-store-part-1